Thursday 27 September 2018

Product personalization

Product personalization


In the digital economy, new technology, such as AI, allows for much more digital personalization (see: Digital Personalisation: The Holy Grail of AI), it is now allowing for more product personalization whereby products can become much more personalized to your needs:


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/cramer-this-years-investable-theme-is-product-personalization.html

Saturday 22 September 2018

The Smart Life: Living a smart life in a smart home in a smart city?

The Smart Life: living a smart life in a smart home in a smart city?


Imagine having an AI system like Alexa or Siri in your smart home, smart office, smart car in a smart city? More and more gadgets are coming out with IoT and AI systems built-in:


https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/amazon-aims-to-make-alexa-assistant-bigger-part-of-users-lives/articleshow/65908485.cms

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Ghost Writer

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Ghost Writer 


How to be creative in content creation – Use AI?


Recently, MIT has created AI that is designed to work with humans on horror stories. This AI has been ‘trained’ using over 100,000 horror stories that allows it to work with human writers to create horror stories. I suppose this is what you call a ghostwriter! (Could there be any copyright issues in creating content in this way, where the AI/machine learning code is going through many copyright works?)

Writing a bestseller may now be in the hands of AI techies rather than human authors. Content creators/producers will be gradually replaced by AI, probably even for visual/video content. At least the large content publishers will start using AI to create content for their users

Will human ingenuity and creativity always be ahead of AI in content creation?

DigitalAsian

Tokens as a Licence: Using blockchain tokens to licence IPR

Currency DNA
Tokens as a Licence: Using blockchain tokens to licence IPR 


Tokens as a Licence: Using blockchain tokens to licence IPR


As every month passes we hear about new use cases for blockchain technology. The common ones for cryptocurrencies. Outside of cryptocurrencies, we hear about using blockchain for insurance records, supply chain management, DRM and digital assets such as financial instruments.

Rather than using tokens as a means of security, another use case is for licensing. Tokens as a Licence (TaaL) are used for licensing software. Among the many methods of licensing software, developers can get their users to purchase blockchain crypto-tokens which can then be used against software.

TaaL could be used for licensing other tangible or intangible assets such as IPR (films, music, eBooks, digital content), real estate, cars etc.


Sunday 16 September 2018

Tuesday 11 September 2018

Clouds in Space

Clouds in Space


Amazon and Jeff Bezos may not only be working on launching people into space but also having services there too. Amazon briefly uploaded job postings which suggest it may be planning to launch cloud services in space:


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/amazons-cloud-business-is-looking-to-space.html

Monday 10 September 2018

Vision of the Future

Vision of the Future


MIT scientists have made advances in computer vision which allow robots to distinguish between various objects. This advance in image recognition will enhance the use of robots around factories, offices and homes.


https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/mits-computer-vision-could-make-robots-more-useful/articleshow/65757928.cms

Cashier-free stores in India

Cashier-free stores in India


India's first cashier-free stores opens in Kochi, Kerala. Opened by Watasale, what impact will this have on Indian retail and ecommerce? And jobs growth?




Wednesday 5 September 2018

A future with P2P rating

A future with peer-to-peer rating


Imagine a future where you give a rating to every service provider you interact with and them giving you a rating also which would then be used by the service provider to decide what, if any, services to provide you in future.


https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/heres-why-uber-will-ban-users-from-taking-cabs/articleshow/65695404.cms

Corporate use of AI to spur global economic growth?

Corporate use of AI to spur global economic growth?


As more and more companies adopt some form of artificial intelligence in their business, could this spur economic growth?


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/artificial-intelligence-ai-could-spur-global-growth-study-shows.html

Monday 3 September 2018

Social video goes the way of gaming

Social video goes the way of gaming


Video streaming platforms, like YouTube, Netflix and Facebook, are going the way of gaming - allowing viewers to watch together and talk online about what they are watching. Gaming allows multiplayer egames/esports, social video streaming is going the same way:


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/02/facebook-says-social-video-will-set-it-apart-from-netflix-and-youtube.html